Might be easier to select the background and try a Gaussian blur. -----Original Message----- >From: Don Guthrie <[email protected]> >Subject: Re:Vintage Car > >Rick,Ken,Paul Thanks for you comments and critique. I agree about the >background although I did think it was better in B&W but that lost the >lovely reds. > >I shall have a go at cloning or maybe this would be a good time to learn >compositing and drop in a whole new background. I have wanted to try >that. Thanks to everyone for their help. > > > >[email protected] wrote: >> From: "Ken Waller"<[email protected]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"<[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Re:Vintage Car >> Message-ID: <725F5D738D804A82803524080F93E84A@kena60ebc3b689> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=response >> >> Pretty much the way it was around where I grew up - north Jersey - with an >> occasional Chrysler fan thrown in just for diversity. My family was totally >> FORD ! >> >> When I interviewed G.M I was totally turned off by their attitude - >> especially Chevrolet - making me feel priviliged if they offered me a job. I >> interviewed Ford and was offered the job during the interview and from that >> time till now my family has been a Ford family. >> Back in the late 60's there wasn't much significant differences between >> Fords or Chevies except for the styling. >> >> Alot has changed over the years. >> >> I like the image you captured BTW, I just wish the background was more out >> of focus - it detracts from the vehicle. >> >> Kenneth Waller >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller >________________________________________________ >> From: Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Vintage Car >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> In Chicago, GM and Ford dominated as well. Our first family car was a Ford, >> but my dad was truly an independent thinker, so he followed up with a >> Rambler, than a couple of Oldsmobiles. >> >> I grew up lusting over automobiles made in Detroit, and as a young adult >> had success racing machines that at least looked like big three products, >> but that early fondness for things Motown was torn asunder in later years. >> My first jobs in advertising were for the Europeans, Jaguar and Mercedes, at >> NY agencies. Ford's Lincoln/Mercury agency, Young and Rubicam, talked me >> into coming to Detroit as creative director on the Lincoln business in the >> early nineties. At the time, Ford's style of management was "shit flows >> downhill," and the ad agency was at the bottom of the hill. The two years I >> spent on that business were the most miserable of my life. A couple of years >> at GM's Buick agency, McCann Erickson, were slightly better, but I wasn't >> really comfortable in the Motor City until I got on the Dodge account at >> BBDO. That was a great place to work, and Dodge was a great client. Of >> course that piece of business went to hell when management sold their souls >> to a devil named Daimler, bu t >I had ten great years there. After 23 years in metro Detroit, I've grown >accustomed to this place. These days I work primarily as a journalist, and the >car companies that once beat me up go out of their way to make me happy. And >that's as it should be:-). >> >> Nice pic. I would clone out the distracting background elements and replace >> them with the tree lines, blurring as necessary. But I'm a clone-tool whore >_____________________________________________________________________ > >> Message: 3 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:26:51 -0500 From: Rick Womer >> <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Subject: >> Re: Vintage Car Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I like it, but the background is >> a bit of a problem: it looks as though the bright red play structure is on >> the tailgate of the truck. ' Rick On Dec 10, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Don Guthrie >> wrote: >>> Cleaning & sorting don't think I posted this one anywhere so to remedy that >>> here it is. >>> C&C as always. >>> >>> http://donspix.smugmug.com/Cars/Vintage-Cars-1
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